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ning every game, due to their inventory of basketball prizes quickly diminishing. However it was our campers duty to keep winning those #2 emoji’s (out of control! #goodnessgracious We came back to camp and had some midnight munch, thank you Yossi Ei-senreich for grilling, your hot dogs were delicious! We all went to sleep so pleasantly, just what the doctor ordered for tomorrow's

TUESDAY!! WHERE DO WE START??? Elite Division arrived at camp regular time. Within no time a gor-geous coach bus rolled into camp. Bus driver Joe was our captain leading us to the one and only Six Flags Great Adven-ture, in Jackson, NJ. As we pulled into 6 flags, we quickly had lunch, and marched our way to the amaz-ing rides. Peter was brought to tears from the excitement and speed of Kingda Ka

while Shaya Zimmer-man held back his ex-citement and joined Head Staff David on the ultimate joy ride. We all had so much fun playing games and winning prizes, shout out to Nachi Rappaport for winning the 3 pt shootout. Daniel Robinson con-quered the death de-fying Joker tumble saucing speed ride. The chancellor of the gaming commission immediately called Effy to order our campers to stop win-

Monday is the first day of second half! We have so much in store!! Cant wait to welcome every-one!!! Tuesday we have a slight change to original schedule. Tuesday will be NBA day!!

Everyone please sport your NBA ap-parel. We cant wait to show you the sur-prise guest we have in store. Wednesday is carnival day! The elite division will be running an awesome carnival. Booths will

be clowned up and clowns will be cotton candy. Thursday will be Purim in July! Don't forget to dress up in your finest costumes!!! Friday is Pizza Day!! Have a Great Shabbos

The Ultimate Six Flags Trip !!!!

I N S I D E

T H I S I S S U E :

Featured 1

Next Weeks

News

1

Trip 2

Activities 3

Leagues 3

Awards 4

Dvar Torah 5

Pictures 6&7

Mitzvah Notes 8

Next Weeks News (Don’t even bother trying to find another paper that has this!):

Merockdim Connections

J U L Y 1 7 — J U L Y 2 1 V O L U M E 2 0 , I S S U E 4

Director:

Effy Weissmandl

Director:

Dina Weissmandl

Asst. Director:

David Ruskin

Head Counselor:

Avi Epstein

Learning Director:

Rabbi D. Isaacs

Parshas

Matot-Massei

Candle Lighting 8:04

Shkiah 8:22

Shacharis Check local

Havdalah 9:34

בסד

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Clementon, Bounce and so much more

Junior Division all arrived at the girls campus at 6:30!! PARTY!! Can’t be the best day ever, without a early wake up! We need to use the whole day for it to be the BEST DAY EVER! We all met up with our counse-lors and loaded the busses for our big trip to Clementon Amusement park!! We arrived just on time, made groups, and buddies and off we went to the wa-terpark!! Wave pool was non forgiving, as the ferocious waves hammered us back and forth. Boys got the chills just looking at “Torpedo Rush” ride. The sky-scraper like free fall was beyond! “Viper” another camper's fa-vorite was this twisty turny monster tube

ride. Around 12, we took a quick lunch break by our Elm Pavilion where we were served scrump-tious hot pizza ba-gels, fries and noodles. Other camps were clear-ly envious. Our boys made a real kidish Hashem as we did not leave any garbage on the tables. #OICM! After lunch we headed to the amusement park!! We got to enjoy all the fun rides while playing all sort of games. Effy even got all of us a voucher for one snack/drink from the conces-sion stand. WHAT A DAY!! On Tuesday morning bunk Ahava, Emunah, Bina and bonim all

arrived to camp as usual. Things were different! Quiet, ex-citement in the air. Why did we have lunch right after learning groups? Wait what busses pulling up right after lunch?? TRIP DAY!!! The Minor Leagues division were all treated to a super fun trip to BOUNCE U!! We arrived to a world of wonder and fun, filled with inflatable bounce activities… Moonwalk, bounce cliff, bounce basket-ball, a bounce slide a bounce obstacle course! Star coun-selor Reuven Co-hen was so excited that he did a back-flip! Two hours later we were all so tired from such an amaz-ing trip. ONLY IN CAMP MEROCK-DIM!!

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C O N N E C T I O N S

REMINDER: WE

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Activities P A G E 3 V O L U M E 2 0 , I S S U E 4

Monday started off the week in a rather fine fashion! Not a cloud in the sky, a picture perfect like camp day. The boys were in for a quite a treat when they found the staff members dressed up as fish-erman awaiting the upcoming swimming session. “Fishing” who would have thunk! The middle di-vision are excellent fisherman!! Proud would be an understate-ment!! Thank you to our wonderful lifeguards for protecting us so bravely. Those slides are incredi-ble wow what a party! NOTHING LIKE A MEROCKDIM FISHER-MANS POOL PARTY! #OICM!!! Mandatory curfew tonight for the whole camp @8:00. CRAZY TRIP

DAY!! CAN’T WAIT!!! PLAYOFFS! We felt the anxiety as soon as learning groups ended. The Elite Division was introduced to our new double elimination playoffs format. Intensity would be an un-derstatement. Coaches were no-ticeable balding, making these coaching moves are tough boys! One single bad decision could be the difference of winning, and mov-ing on to the next round. Who's go-ing to win??Championship Friday is finally here! Will the favorites pull through?? Maui Jim’s, Ray Bans, D.p.’s, and Rottweilers really hope so! Can we perhaps see a Cinder-ella team pull off a crazy upset?? Bulldogs, Poodles and Aviators be-lieve should we? In other news, bunk Havanah’s Stud JC, Shlomo

Jacoby was this week's baseball MVP when he hit for the cycle and hit 3 HR, proud of you Shlomo. Merockdim Training Camp Update- This week in M.T.C. our trainers got really good at nascar racing!! Our state of the art go kart track never gets old! Especially when it’s right next to the famous Merockdim Base-ball Academy. Nothing like taking some BP while waiting your turn on the go kart. On thursday M.T.C. trained in tennis! Yes, the technology was definitely in high gear this week, when we used our professional tennis machine. “The Prince” was rocking when we all worked on our return stroke. Dodgeball vs. ouch, but fun! More spots still available, call the of-fice for more details. YOU WILL LOVE IT!

palisades mall we went. The boys broke up into their league teams and had a blast in our first ever Mer-ockdim Mall Scaven-ger Hunt! Asher Kraus, you make me

proud! Wow was the footage from that little outing, priceless! #whatalast24hrs!!! With over 15 hours of sleep he won the race of most sleep of the night!!!

super exciting Camp Merockdim day!! Sha-chris was truly inspir-ing thank you MIZ-RAHCHI, you legend! Breakfast was deliv-ered and before we knew it we were back on the bus. Off to the

League Standings

“A twister of

twists once twisted

a twist, a twist

that he twisted

was a three twisted

twist, if in twisting

a twist one twist

should untwist, the

untwisted twist

would untwist the

twist.”

Junior League

Win Loss Tie Points

Doberman

Rottweilers

Poodles

Pitbulls

Pugs

Schnauzers

Chihuahua

St. Bernards

Bulldogs

Beagles

Minor League Win Loss Tie Points

Bananas

Apples

Oranges

Kumquats

Cantaloupes

Pears

Peaches

Mangos

Major League

Win Loss Tie Points

Ray Bans

Maui Jim

Aviators

Oakley's

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Emunah Yaakov

Weissmandl

Mordechai

Megadesh

Levi

Barasch Dayus

Daniel

Hirshaut

Reuven

Goldberg

Yoni

Toledano

Ahava Moshe

Steinburger

Yonah

Markowitz

Ephraim

Aschkenazy Dveikus

Reuven

Goldberg

Aharon Elieze

Berkowitz

Asher

Fried

Binah Gavi

Kraus

Binyamin

Gelbin

Momo

DeutscherRHavanah

Daniel

Zimmerman

Gavriel

Bennet

Elazer

Zimmerman

Bonim Shlomi

Schwartz

Simon

Weinstein

Daniel

Sanik Hatznai

Aryeh

Hirshaut

Chaim Tzvi

Smith

Zecharia

Soffer

Gedolah Jake

Rubenstein

Natanel

Bromberg

Tzvi

Israel Vatronus

Menachem

Adelman

Avi

Baron

Ari

Bernstein

Gevurah Benjy

Gux

Ezzy

Rutner

Akiva

Axelrod Chasidus

Shmuel Dov

Klein

Yakov

Grama

Benny

Haymov

Rabbi Kaplen Moshe Steinberger

Mordy Megadesh Akiva Deutsch Jeremu Zoldan

Rabbi Cohen Azi Klahr

Shlomi Schwartz Tzvi Neuhauser Chezky Shutyak

R’ Nenner Akiva Axelrod

Yaakov Baitz Yisroel Metzger Aharon Yaniv

R’ Newhouse Yosef Friedman

Eli Wiederkehr Yehoshua Gayer Binyomin Iamstein

R’ Duetscher Daniel Hirschaut

Aaron E, Berkowitz Yoni Mause

Moshe Berman

R’ Weiss Meir Landau

Donnie Schiller Dovid Zazon Moshe Hollander

R’ Shiller Dovid Pachtinger Yitzchak Weissmandl

R’ Knopfler Yehoshua Dahan Gaby Altschuler

Harav Cement Nachi Schwartz Aaron Mizrachi

Best In Learning Best In Davening

Best In Bunk

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Keitzad? ! A Shabbos Vort from

Rabbi Dani Isaacs Merockdim Learning Director

Win-Win!

In last week’s Parasha (perek 27), one of the members of the Tribe of Menashe, Tzlo-fechad, had died in the desert…and he had five daughters (but no sons!) to inherit him: what would become of his portion of the Land?! The daughters brought this question to

Moshe and Hashem told him that the daughters would inherit his Land.

At the end of this week’s doubled Parasha – at the end of Sefer Bamidbar – we find the members of the family of Machir ben Menashe inquiring about a side-effect of this law. “Since the Land is inherited through the men, what will happen if Tzlofechad’s daughters marry men from another tribe? When the yovel comes, this land will be removed from our tribe and go to the tribe of their husbands!” The answer was straightforward: the daughters of Tzlofechad would need to marry within the Tribe of Menashe. The Sefer of BaMidbar ends by telling us that they did so, and then adds, “These are the Mitzvos and Mishpotim

that Hashem commanded…”

I think that there’s an amazing lesson to be learnt here. Sefer BaMidbar really doesn’t have all that many halachos within it; it has a lot of narrative of events. But this halacha and event – the law dictating who Bnos Tzlofechad must marry and the statement that they complied – is the essence of the halachos. It was a statement of PEACE. The law is meant to maintain the integrity of the tribal portion in the Holy Land, to avoid strife between tribes. And the daughters’ compliance despite the intensely personal nature of the law, shows their

desires to help “keep the peace” in Bnei Yisroel.

These are the 3 Weeks of Mourning for Bnei Yisroel. It’s known that the main cause of our troubles is our lack of Sholom (as is clear from the story of Bar Kamtza and other stories). Let’s ask ourselves in the coming weeks what we can do to increase peace with our fellow

Jews and how we can teach our children to value this quality and strive for it.

Good Shabbos!

Rabbi Daniel Isaacs

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